This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century nun and God, her "divine spouse." Fusing documentary and acting by Marie Tifo, whom we follow as she rehearses for this demanding role, the film paints an astonishing portrait of this mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.
Based on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of E...
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...
The film consists mainly of interviews with readers of Freud in Brazil and several places in Europe,...
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young acti...
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...
Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey t...
The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private a...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
The Cistercian monks of Austria are holy men who rise at 4:30 a.m., pray for more than four hours a ...
A documentary about special makeup effects on low budget horror films. Includes behind-the-scenes fo...
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...
It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with...
On December 4, 1872, the unmanned Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic with its cargo fully...
A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their f...
The eagerly anticipated wait is over, after 5 years since the release of her last album, Adele is ba...
The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...
A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for ...